Why HashtagBattle?

This site is born from a friendly competition between two Startup Weekends held the same day in Sophia-Antipolis (France) and Lauzanne (Switzerland). We wanted to know which side would get more tweets.
Camille, co-organizer of the Sophia-Antipolis event, coded the first prototype of #HashtagBattle in one hour on a Friday night.
On saturday night, with some kind help from Damian, the prototype was tremendously improved and the first release was deployed!
We decided to continue this funny project and a nice adventure started...

Which tweets count?

We only count the Twitter hashtags that are significant and valid. Significant (to us) means a tweet that’s been retweeted or contains a link. Valid means we’ve removed any bots or spammy sources.